Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

2024 saw politics, culture, and the overlap between them grow ever stranger, and that’s reflected in our picks for the year’s top video essays. Videos about artificial intelligence, abuses of ...

Looking at the year’s notable video essays, many grapple with issues at the heart of contemporary media itself. There are dissections of video-playing tools, exposés of how corporations restrict ...

"All of the best movies have trains." But, why? What is it about trains? "Why are train movies almost always good?" So many questions! Time to get some answers. Maybe? Two of the latest videos created ...

Students increasingly have the option to submit a video introduction, recorded on their phone or laptop, with their college application. This is a way for admissions officers to get a better idea of ...

“Art in the Pre-Apocalypse” (screenshot by Dan Schindel/Hyperallergic)" Since Hyperallergic first began periodic roundups of video essays in May 2019, a lot has changed in the field. Some of the video ...

What makes a video essay truly great? This video takes a creative, self-aware journey into the art of video essays, blending humor, insight, and storytelling to craft something unforgettable. 'We got ...

The onslaught of AI into higher education has been especially worrisome for college admissions officers: Are the students they admit chatbots in disguise? According to one 2024 survey, as many as one ...

Instead of watching a TV show nowadays, I will instead find an “appropriately unhinged” (a la Mike's Mic) video essay on YouTube that will summarise the show and analyse it within an inch of its life.

“The History of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out World Records” by Summoning Salt (screenshot by Dan Schindel) It’s time for a holiday edition of our column of new and noteworthy video essays! Granted, none of ...